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Use of fast radio burst dispersion measures as distance measures

Pawan Kumar1 and Eric V. Linder2,3

  • 1Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
  • 2Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics & Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 3Energetic Cosmos Laboratory, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan 010000

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Phys. Rev. D 100, 083533 – Published 22 October, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.083533

Abstract

Fast radio bursts appear to be cosmological signals whose frequency-time structure provides a dispersion measure. The dispersion measure is a convolution of the cosmic distance element and the electron density, and contains the possibility of using these events as new cosmological distance measures. We explore the challenges of extracting the distance in a robust manner, and give quantitative estimates for the systematics control needed for fast radio bursts to become a competitive distance probe. The methodology can also be applied to assessing their use for mapping electron density fluctuations or helium reionization.

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Phys. Rev. D 100, 083533– Published 22 October, 2019
  • Received 24 July 2019
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